Leading Through the Shift: What Engineering Leadership Actually Looks Like
Building great engineering teams has never been straightforward — but the rules keep changing. Three back-to-back panel discussions with CTOs and engineering leaders covering the full spectrum: scaling teams and competing for talent in a small market, navigating a leadership role that looks nothing like it did five years ago (AI included), and making the hard calls on culture, tech debt, and architecture when there's no clear playbook to follow.
I'm a Head of Engineering at CoinGate, a crypto payments fintech based in Vilnius. In my experience I've been in various roles: starting as a developer and even testing myself in C level role. I'm most energized when a technical team and a product team stop being two separate things and start building as one.
Outside of work, I organize VilniusPy — local Python meetups where developers meet, chat, and share what they're actually working on. I also speak at conferences, because the best way to keep learning is to put your thinking in front of a room.
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Tomas leads data at Mediatech and runs Uncle Data, a newsletter and podcast for data engineers who prefer practical advice over hype. By day, he manages pipelines processing half a billion events; by night, he writes about what he learned (often the hard way). When not wrangling DAGs or mentoring his team, he's probably optimising a Magic: The Gathering deck.